A good friend of mine who is a policeman tells me many criminals are never punished because their defense attorneys are experts at spinning and turning and asking all kinds of irrelevant questions whereby they manage to create a very small doubt by which the guilty is exonerated.
There was a case where four policemen not in uniform tried to arrest thugs beating up innocent people. Even though the policemen verified they had each shown their police identification the defense attorney twisted their testimony, questioning and questioning them until he managed to create a doubt whether the thugs had all understood they were policemen when they attacked them. The doubt resulted in a full acquittal.
In a criminal prosecution the jury is held to a standard of finding "guilt" by weighing the evidence and determining that the defendant is guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt".
In a civil case, the jury must find liability and damages by weighing the evidence based upon the standard of the "propensity of the evidence". Their game will be to continue to try and prevent the introduction of the evidence and we must use the rules if evidence to get the evidence into the record and before the jury. The evidence heavily weighs against them and they most certainly know that or they would not keep coming back to the same process of trying to protect evidence from discovery or, if discovered, to protect it from dissemination and ultimately to find a way to keep it from coming into the hands of the jury pool. That, in summary, is the game!!!
They also have a major problem that has come into the strategic mix...a criminal investigation by the IRS which is highly prejudicial and usually inadmissible. BUT, they alleged defamation per se and made a big deal about the premise that the allegations we have made accused 3ABN and the Founder of criminal activity...and now they have accidentally laid the foundation for the introduction of the investigation and the implications including expert testimony!!! Tough life if you are a lawyer for 3ABN and Danny lee Shelton, et al.
Gailon Arthur Joy